{"product_id":"introduction-to-manuscript-studies-9780801487088","title":"Introduction to Manuscript Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eProviding a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies  this lavishly illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography  codicology  and manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history  art history  literature  and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time  while also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers interested in the history of the book before the age of print. Introduction to Manuscript Studies features three sections:  Part 1  \"Making the Medieval Manuscript \" offers an in-depth examination of the process of manuscript production  from the preparation of the writing surface through the stages of copying the text  rubrication  decoration  glossing  and annotation to the binding and storage of the completed codex.  Part 2  \"Reading the Medieval Manuscript \" focuses on the skills necessary for the successful study of manuscripts  with chapters on transcribing and editing; reading texts damaged by fire  water  insects  and other factors; assessing evidence for origin and provenance; and describing and cataloguing manuscripts. This part ends with a survey of sixteen medieval scripts dating from the eighth to the fifteenth century.  Part 3  \"Some Manuscript Genres \" provides an analysis of several of the most frequently encountered types of medieval manuscripts  including Bibles and biblical concordances  liturgical service books  Books of Hours  charters and cartularies  maps  and rolls and scrolls. The book concludes with an extensive glossary  a guide to dictionaries of medieval Latin  and a bibliography subdivided and keyed to the subsections of the volumes chapters. Every chapter in this magisterial guidebook features numerous color plates that exemplify each aspect described in the text and are drawn primarily from the collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College  Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666078392373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801487080","price":76.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801487088.jpg?v=1782418335","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/introduction-to-manuscript-studies-9780801487088","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}